Page 2462 - Week 08 - Thursday, 30 August 2007
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MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Mr Pratt, I understand you are already on a warning from before. Mr Smyth, I have called you to order twice.
MR HARGREAVES: Since when—
Mr Pratt: Just on a point of clarification, Mr Speaker: I do not believe I am on—
MR HARGREAVES: You don’t want to hear it, do you? You are embarrassed.
Mr Pratt: John, sit down.
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Mr Pratt, direct your question to me.
Mr Pratt: I shall. The point of clarification is: no, I am not on a warning today.
MR HARGREAVES: You are also not tossed out today. Since when did a series of options constitute an offer? Have the Leader of the Opposition and Deputy Leader of the Opposition embarrassed themselves by making this comment in the dissenting report or has Mr Pratt dropped them in it? Also, Mr Pratt, in his letter to me, does not describe the letter as an offer but he exhorts us to submit a formal application on behalf of the Tharwa community.
Mr Smyth: Oh, okay.
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Smyth!
MR HARGREAVES: Also, in dismissing environmental issues such as the degradation of the banks of the Murrumbidgee and the environmental flow of the river, he says that “such considerations would need to be rapidly assessed and resolved”. That is code for “tell them to ride right over the environmental concerns”.
Members interjecting—
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, members!
MR HARGREAVES: There is no offer, and no consideration of the cost to the taxpayer of around $2 million.
Mr Smyth: Andrew, save us! Stop him!
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, Mr Smyth!
MR HARGREAVES: There is no consideration of the time it would take to have a crossing built, and no consideration of the environmental concerns. Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker, I table the following letter from Mr Pratt to me, which includes the letter from Dr Nelson to Mr Pratt:
Tharwa Bridge—Copy of letter to Mr Hargreaves from Mr Pratt, dated 14 February 2007, including attachment.
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